disappear

verb

1. 1

   To vanish.

2. 2

   To go missing; to become a missing person.

   Eighteen years after Jaycee Dugard disappeared in 1991, she was found alive in the summer of 2009.

3. 3

   To go away; to become lost.

   I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.

   A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff. These properties were known to have belonged to a toddy drawer. He had disappeared.

   Streaks became what separated my "real" friends from the rest of my contacts on the app. I had to maintain snap streaks not because my friends or I wanted to, but because letting it disappear would see that physical quantification of our friendship fall back down to zero.

4. 4

   To make vanish; especially, to abduct or murder for political reasons.

   The Chinese government is well-known for disappearing particularly vocal political dissidents.

   "Did they disappear him?" "I don’t know." "What will you do if they decide to disappear you?"

   Now a new hunt is under way to find a grave believed to contain the remains of some of those who were “disappeared” at Colonia Dignidad.

   "It's such an honoring for Native people in this country, when we've been so disappeared and disregarded," Harjo says.

Forms

past tense

disappeared

past participle

disappeared

present participle

disappearing

third person singular

disappears